At 10:00 p.m. on February 3, the second semi-final of the Women's Asian Cup was played by China against Japan, after South Korea had taken the lead in reaching the final.
In this women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team defeated Chinese Taipei and Iran 4-0 and 7-0 in the two matches of the group stage; the third opponent, the host India, abstained due to the epidemic; in the quarter-finals, the Chinese women's football team reversed vietnam's 3-1 victory and reached the semifinals with their heads held high.
In the previous three games, The number one star of the Chinese women's football team, Wang Shuang, has performed extremely eye-catchingly, scoring 5 goals and 2 assists, and is now the third in the top scorer list, while the top two are Australian players.
But unfortunately, Before the semi-finals, Wang Shuang's foot was injured, and although she entered the big list, she was still put on the bench by Shui Qingxia. Whether Wang Shuang can play on the bench is still unknown, but obviously, Wang Shuang's absence has seriously affected the strength and play of the Chinese women's football team.
In addition, in the face of the stronger Japanese women's football team, in the absence of Wang Shuang, the other person in the "Wang Bomb Combination" of the Chinese women's football front, Wang Shanshan, was also put by Shui Qingxia on the defensive line with more worries, which obviously greatly weakened the offensive ability of the Chinese frontcourt.
For nearly a decade, The Japanese women's soccer team has clearly become the top Asian women's football team, winning the 2011 Women's World Cup and winning consecutive titles at the 2014 and 2018 Women's Asian Cups.
The first half of the game began, after the Chinese women's football team lacked the core Wang Shuang, the ability of the midfield connection was significantly reduced, and the opportunity to attack was significantly reduced; the Japanese women's football team has been in a state of suppressing the Chinese team.
In the 26th minute, Japan's Miyazawa Hinata's low cross was met by Riko Uegi, who jumped up in the middle and pushed the ball into the net, leaving the Chinese women's soccer team behind 0-1.
The passing and matching of the Japanese women's football team is obviously more fluent than that of the Chinese team, and the mistakes of the Chinese women's football team in the first half are obviously more. In addition, the Japanese women's football team is very similar to the technical play of its national football men's team - as long as the Chinese women's football team has the ball, two or three players will come forward to grab it, which increases the difficulty of the Chinese women's football team to control the ball. China ended the first half 0-1.
In the second half, Xiao Yuyi came on as a substitute, Wang Shuang was still sitting on the bench; just one minute after the game began, Tang Jiali broke through to the bottom line and picked out a pass, the ball fell to the front of the small penalty area, and Wu Chengshu followed up to push the goal: 1-1!
In the second half, the Chinese women's football team was still very physically energetic, and under the decline in the opponent's physical fitness, through continuous active scrambling, the restrictions on the Japanese team's attack were better than in the first half.
The Chinese team is not as good as the Japanese team in terms of foot technology, and in the second half, it adopts a simpler and more direct way of playing: that is, after getting the ball, it is directly passed to the front court, and strives to quickly hit the Japanese team by surprise; and the Japanese team still has obviously more shooting opportunities than the Chinese team, but fortunately, the Chinese team can eventually turn the danger into a disaster.
In the 86th minute, Wang Xiaoxue lost his position on the middle of the road, and the Japanese team grabbed the ball and quickly cooperated with the shot to fly, and the referee also raised the flag to indicate that the Japanese team was offside.
In the 88th minute, Tang Jiali stopped the ball too much in the penalty area and missed a good attacking opportunity. In the end, the two sides drew 1-1 in regular time, and the game went into extra time.
In extra time, in the 97th minute, the Japanese team kicked a kick on the goal frame and popped up, and the Chinese women's football team had good luck and escaped the disaster.
In the 102nd minute, the Japanese team took advantage of the free kick opportunity in the front court, and it was Riko Ueki who successfully reversed the offside position and pushed the ball into the net: the Chinese women's football team fell behind 1-2, and the two goals conceded by the Chinese team were both scored by the same person as the Japanese team with their heads. The taller Chinese women's football team actually made two mistakes in the defensive high altitude.
In the 108th minute, the Chinese team won a free kick opportunity on the left side of the front, and Wang Shanshan, who has been playing as a defender in this game, grabbed a pad in front of the penalty area and scored, stubbornly chasing the score to 2-2 at the last minute!
At the beginning of the penalty shootout, the Japanese team took the penalty first, and the Chinese women's football goalkeeper Zhu Yu saved the ball; however, Zhang Xin, the first penalty of the Chinese team, also missed; the second, third and fourth rounds were scored by both sides; in the fifth round, the Chinese team goalkeeper fell out of the Japanese team's penalty again, and the Chinese team was the fifth to be scored by the captain Wang Shanshan, and finally eliminated the Japanese team 4-3 on penalties and entered the final!
This is the Chinese women's football team, which is the spirit of the Chinese women's football team - although the strength is not as good as the other side, although it can only take a simpler and more practical long-pass counterattack style, but in the end the Chinese team still insisted on the penalty shootout, and eliminated the japanese women's football team, the champion of the last two Asian Cups, which can also be regarded as a revenge for the Chinese men's football team just lost to the Japanese men's football team! 【Original Review: Yu said that hugh】